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Q.-Now, with regard to limewashing, do you think that the limewash which is used here is proper limewash?
A-I insist here on having proper lime used.
Q. What do you call proper lime ?
A.-Shell lime; but sometimes they use chalk and water.
113.-Q.—Now, do you think that it would be any advantage to put it on hot ?
A.-It would make a better job from a Sanitary point of view, if it were put on hot. It is recommended to be put on hot, in books.
Q. From your experience in Australia, how do they put it on?
A.—We dont use it much, except limewash for kitchens and so on. It is put on hot.
Q. Why is it put on hot?
A. It sticks better to the walls. It does not come away in flakes.
Q. Do you think, if it were put properly on, it would be as well to put it on once a year as twice a year?
A.-Once a year if properly done.
The Chairman. Are you speaking of the better class of houses, or ordinary Chinese houses?
A. The ordinary Chinese house. The kitchens might require doing more than once a year.
Q.-Dont you think your Chinese servants are so dirty, even in the better class houses that it is better to have it limewashed effectively twice a year than once in twelve months?
A. Yes.
Q.-Dont you think that if tha: applies to your servants' quarters, that it would equally apply to Chinese houses, where there is no master with a higher standard of cleanliness?
A. The Chinese hang things on the walls. The big Chinese room allows the air to go through. It is usually 30 feet deep and 15 feet wide. The servants' room is only about ten feet by eight.
Q-If I find myself in my own house, that in my own servants' quarters, after three or four months, or five or six months, that the place is so dirty that it ought to be lime- washed, whether the Government told me to do so or not, dont you think that that would apply as well to the majority of Chinese houses?
A.-I dont know if it is so. I have had lots of places under my charge, which would not require doing more than once a twelvemonth.
Q.-So clean that they do not require doing?
A. Yes, if properly done in the first place.
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